Standing atop the buildings of Magic Valley City, Bonney, Drake, Trafalgar Law, and the others wore obvious expressions of confusion.
"Is that it?" Bonney could not help asking. "Nothing happened."
"Something must have happened that we don't know about." Trafalgar Law's expression was grave. He did not believe Issho would be foolish enough to deceive two of the Shichibukai, Jinbe and the Empress. Nor did he think Leo and the others would be stupid enough to be fooled by a fraud pretending to be strong.
While Trafalgar Law was still puzzling over it, Drake suddenly raised his head, his neck tilted back at nearly a hundred and twenty degrees as he stared blankly up at the sky.
Then Trafalgar Law and Bonney followed Drake's gaze and looked in that direction, only to see a massive red fireball blazing through the sky, burning as it streaked forward and rapidly hurtled toward them.
Not only them—even Hancock, Jinbe, Leo, and even Ace, Enel, and Sabo at the center of the battlefield all noticed the enormous blazing fireball rolling toward them at the same time.
They were over two thousand meters above the Marine Admirals' heads, but the Admirals had been using Observation Haki to keep them firmly locked on.
Under such circumstances, it would have been stranger if the Admirals had failed to notice the enormous fireball falling from the sky. They watched in shock as the three Admirals and Sengoku, without hesitation and without sparing their stamina, used Geppo to leap into the sky.
The enormous fireball passed through Ace and the other two. After they turned into elements, it easily passed through their bodies. Once it fell below them, they hovered in the air and looked down at the giant meteorite drawing ever closer to the Marines.
They scratched their